tournoivsTournonWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: tournoi is a noun, Tournon is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tournoi” is a noun and “Tournon” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,549
“tournoi” frequency rank
#38,576
“Tournon” frequency rank
41125
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tournoi Tournon
Definition Compétition amicale, sans enjeu important et ne donnant pas lieu à l'attribution d'un titre. Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.

Letter map: tournoi vs Tournon

Shared letters muted; letters that set tournoi and Tournon apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. tournoi (CVVCCVV) and Tournon (CVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
tournoi
7 ch
Tournon

Part-of-speech tell for tournoi / Tournon

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tournoi is anoun and Tournonaname. On the page they differ by a single letter - i in “tournoi” becomes n in “Tournon”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41125, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tournoi is recorded at frequency rank #2,549, classified as anoun, pronounced \tuʁ.nwa\. Tournon is at rank #38,576, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 41125, this pair ranks #235,410 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tournoi vs Tournon

Shared letters: nortu. Private to "tournoi": i. Private to "Tournon": -.

"tournoi" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "Tournon" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tournoioturnoi · torunoi · tounroi · tournio · tournnoi · touroni · tourrnoi · ttournoi
  • Tournonoturnon · torunon · tounron · tournno · tournnon · tournonn · touronn · tourrnon

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "tournoi" and "Tournon" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tournoi" is a noun and "Tournon" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "tournoi" vs "Tournon" - which ranks higher?
"tournoi" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,549 in our French list, against #38,576 for "Tournon". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "tournoi" vs "Tournon" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tournoi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Tournon" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #235,410 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tournoi" and "Tournon" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Tournon vs tournons". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #235,410 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list